Quora精選：有哪些知識最毀三觀？

What Is The biggest Mindfuck Ever?哪些知識最毀三觀？

得票最多的回答 @Henry Johnson

1. The continents look entirely different than you think they do.大陸板塊本來的樣子跟你認(rèn)為的完全不一樣。The map you’re used to is more Western-focused and stretches out the size of continents near the poles. Africa and South America are actually way bigger.你習(xí)以為常的這種地圖更多地是以西方為中心，它拉伸了兩極附近大陸的大小。非洲和南美洲實(shí)際上要大得多。Here’s a more accurate representation of the world, according to the The Gall-Peters Projection map, created in 1885.這里有一個(gè)更精確的版本，是根據(jù)1885年創(chuàng)建的Gall-Peters投影地圖：2. If you believe that you’re truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people out there just like you.如果你真的相信自己是百萬里挑一，那還有大約7,184多個(gè)人和你差不多。Because there are over 7 billion people.因?yàn)槭澜缟嫌谐^70億人。3. There are castles and even lighthouses that are less expensive than NYC apartments.有些城堡，甚至燈塔，都比紐約的公寓便宜。4. The United States hasn’t even made it into the Top 50 list of longest-lasting empires.美國甚至還沒進(jìn)入“史上最長命帝國50強(qiáng)”名單。5. 10 percent of the entire world population is still illiterate.世界人口的10％仍然是文盲。6. You thoroughly enjoy celebrating some pretty dark holidays.你實(shí)際上在慶祝一些很黑暗的節(jié)日。For example Labor Day was created as a bandaid to coverup multiple massacres of American workers. 例如，勞動(dòng)節(jié)是為了掩蓋針對美國工人的幾場大屠殺而創(chuàng)建的。7. A whole ecosystem lives in your belly button.你的肚臍眼中存在著一整個(gè)生態(tài)系統(tǒng)。Scientists found 2,368 different species of bacteria living in belly buttons after swabbing the navels of just 60 people.科學(xué)家在僅僅從60個(gè)人的肚臍眼中取樣后就發(fā)現(xiàn)里面生存這2,368不同種類的細(xì)菌。8. You can’t see as many colors as a chicken. You’ll also never see all the beautiful colors of a rainbow.你能看見的顏色比雞少。你也看不到彩虹里所有美麗的顏色。9. We haven’t figured out the secret to immortality, but this jellyfish has.我們還不知道如何不朽，但這種水母知道。The Turritopsis nutricula can live forever by reverting back to its early stage of life after becoming sexually mature.燈塔水母可以通過在性成熟之后回復(fù)到其早期階段來永久存活。

 

(來源:滬江)